A court lutenist, composer, poet  and harpsichord teacher Julie Pinel was most likely born into the Pinel family of famous lutenists. In 1736, she acquired an eight-year permission to publish her vocal and instrumental music.  Within a year Pinel had published a collection of 31 songs, Nouveau recueil d’airs sérieux et à boire for one and two voices, continuo, and flute, suggesting some airs were already composed but not published. 

She dedicated the collection to “Monseigneur le Prince de Soubize, Captaine Lieutenant des Gensdarmes de la garde Du Roy, “ referring to Charles de Rohan (1715-1787).

The dedication reads:  It has been the destiny of my family, for more than 55 years, to have been attached to your illustrious house, in which I have, so to speak, received the light of day [education], and it is this that seems to authorize the liberty that I am taking to offer you the first work that I am publishing. Your noble name, at the start of this book, suffices to render it recommendable. What happiness it will give me Monseigneur if some of these ariettes of which it [the book] is full can amuse you for a few instants. I dare to hope that my diligence, zealousness and ardent desire of pleasing you will take the place of merit in your high esteem. Deign, Monseigneur to render yourself the protector of the productions that my muse glories in presenting to you. A book of Cantates, in a short while, will be the second tribute which is about to be rendered to you. Do me the gracious honor of receiving both of them, as proof of the inviolable attachment and profound respect with which I have the honor of being.”

As was the custom at the time, some of the airs and cantatille demanded challenging ornamentation in the voice and the flute.  For that reason we can surmise that Julie was most likely an educated and accomplished composer and probably a harpsichord teacher.